Qemu: display: cirrus: OOB read access issue

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support. The vulnerability could occur while copying VGA data using bitblt functions for example, cirrusbitbltropfwdtransp. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in...

Qemu: display: cirrus: OOB r/w access issues in bitblt routines

An out-of-bounds r/w access issue was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support. The vulnerability could occur while copying VGA data via various bitblt functions. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on...

USN-776-2: KVM regression

USN-776-1 fixed vulnerabilities in KVM. Due to an incorrect fix, a regression was introduced in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that caused KVM to fail to boot virtual machines started via libvirt. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Avi Kivity discovered...

Heap overflow

Heap-based buffer overflow in the VGA device in Parallels allows local users, with root access to the guest operating system, to terminate the virtual machine and possibly execute arbitrary code in the host operating system via unspecified vectors related to bitblt operations...